Improvement in show-cases



.UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

JACOB HEY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOW-CASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,334, dated July 24,1877; application filed June 20, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JACOB HEY, of Newark, inthe county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Clasps for Glass-Front Drawers, which improvementis fully set forth in the accompanying specification and drawings, inwhich- I Figure 1 is a plan, Fig. 2 is a front, and Fig. 3 a view of aclasp, detached. Fig. 4 is a sectional view from the front, through theknob, and through one of the sides.

My invention relates mainly to that class of drawers used in a cabinetfor samples, as of spools of thread or silk, in which a glass front isused, that the kind of goods may be seen without opening the drawers. Tohold these fronts in place and attach the knobs thereto, withouthavingholes in the same, is the object of this invention.

Accordingly, 1 stamp a clasp, A, out of sheet metalit might be cast,perhaps, just in front of the box, the ends resting inthese gains. Theclasp is then attached to the drawer by having the lower strip Dinserted in a kerf, a, in the bed-piece H of the drawer, and through itfrom below a nail is driven up into the side G.

The upper strip 0 is let into the top of the side G, so as to come flushwith the top, when a nail is driven into the side G to make it fast. Theclasp then binds the ends of the glass front, which is held in positionin the drawer without having a hole through it, and the knob is securedto the clasp by the screw S, and the clasp is secured to the drawer bythe strips 0 and D, nailed or screwed to the drawer side G.

The lower strip D might be the same as the upper strip, let into thelower side of the bed H, and answer the purpose, although I preferablyemploy the present mode by inserting it in the kerf a.

Therefore, what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-- The clasp A, having the knob B attached thereto by thescrew S, and having the rightangle strips 0 and D, for attaching it tothe drawer, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JACOB HEY.

Witnesses:

HORACE HARRIS, EDWARD J. KENNY.

